Sick-bed chair.



PATENTED JAN. 6, 1903.

D. McF. MOORE.

SICK BED CHAIR.

APPLICATION 211.31) APB..18, 1902.

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ATTORNEY PATENTED JAN. 6, 1903.

D. MOFlMMOORE. SICK BED CHAIR. APPLLbATION FILED APE. 1a, 1902.

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ATTORNEY No. 717,894. PATENTED JAN. 6, 1903. D. McF. MOORE. SICK BED CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 18, i902.

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DANIEL llICl A ltLAN MOORE, OF NElVARK, NEW JERSEY.

SICK-BED CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 717,894 dated January 6, 1903..

Application filed April 18, 1502. Serial No.103ni98. (No model 4 To (077/ who/2t if lit q Minor/vb.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL MQFARLAN MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State ofNew Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sick-Bed Chairs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaius to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

'Tlie present invention has reference to a novel means or apparatus which for sake of description and illustration will hereinafter be termed a siclobed chair, the purpose of the invention being to provide a novel and simply-constructetl device or apparatus comprising a number of movable members or sections, whereby the apparatus can be placed in a fiat condition in the bed directly along the side of a sick person who has been moved upon his or her side, and then by turning or rolling the person directly upon the flat sec-' tiousof the device and by proper manipulation of the said device bringing the body of the patient into a sitting posture, the body of the patient at the same time being gently raised and elevated from the surface of the bed a sufficient distance to insert a bed-pan or other proper receptacle directly beneath the seat of the sick-bed chair to enable the patient to attend to the necessary wants of nature.

The principal objects of the present invention,therefore, are, first, to provide an apparatus or device of the character and for the purposes hereinafter more particularly set forth;

secondly, to provide an apparatus or device made in folding sections, to have an apparatus or device of minimum thickness, which can be placed in a sick-bed alongside of the patient, so as to enable the sick person to easily roll or be placed upon the apparatus 'without exertion; thirdly, to provide an apparatus or devicethe sections of which can be brought into such relative positions to provide a chair the seat of which is suflicient'ly elevated above the surface of the bed that a pan or other receiving-receptacle can be placed beneath the seat without having to lift the patient; fourthly, to provide a device or apparatus the movement of which gently raises the patient and brings the patient into i a natural sitting posture without any muscular effort whatever and in which position the bowels are more readily evacuated and with better results and the use of tedious and often objectionable enemas are avoided, and,lastly, to provide a device or apparatus upon which the body of the patient is bent at the middle of the body when raised with the apparatus preparatory to the stool, whereby there will be no straining of the other parts of'the body or of the muscles; and the invention therefore is a great utility in confinement cases and such ailments where uremic poisoning is likely to occur, due mainly to careless handling of the person when lifting the patient or by the uncomfortable position of the patient when the ordinary bed-pan is placed beneath the partiallyraised and strained body of the weak person and avoiding the objectionable and strained positions in which a patient in confinement cases is usually placed by the orders of the best physicians, such as placing the patient upon the knees or placing a vessel in a sitting positionupon the mattress of the bed, and hence in an extremely unstable and dangerous position to a weak person to avoid the downward flow of the urine over the contiguous portions of the body and the possible uremic poisoning that might otherwise take place.

With these various objects in View the invention consists, primarily, in the novel sick-bed chair hereinafter set forth; and, furthermore, my invention consists in the various novel arrangements and combinations of parts with a view of providing a simply-constructed and sanitary device or apparatus,

.all of which will be more particularly described in the following specification and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan view of the sick-bed chair embodying the principles of my invention, the same being illustrated in the flattened-out relation of its parts, ready for placing the same iu the position in the bed for l the reception of the body of the patient prior to the elevation of the latter to a, sitting posture. Fig. 2 is a'longitudinal vertical section of the same, said'section being taken on line 2 2 in Fig, 1 Fig. dis a perspective view of the said device or apparatus with the several sections of the chair in their raised or elevated relation for bringing the patient into' a sitting posture. Fig. 4 is a central vertical section of the device or apparatus when the said sections of the chair are in their raised or elevated positions. Fig. dis a detail plan of the hinged end portions of two of the seetions of the device, illustrating one means of separable hinge connection for the taking apart of the sections for sanitary-purposes;

and Fig. 6 is a cross-section taken on line 5 5 in said Fig. 5.

Similar characters of? reference are em ployed in all of the said above-described views to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the said drawings, the refer-' ence character 1 indicates the complete device or atpparatus, the same consisting, essentially, 0 four members or sections 2, 3, 4,

and 5, which are made of a light material,

prettier-ably papier-mach, which can easily be kept clean and which can beeasily molded and will not strike cold or chill the body of the patient; but of course it will be understood that said members may be made of any other desirable material. These several sections, which are pivotally connected by means of suitable hinges 6, having their leaves suitably secured in countersunk portions along the edges of the respective sections, as shown,

aremade of any desirable widths andvary ing lengths, the-two sections 3 and 5 being of about the same length and being connected by the short or narrow member or section 4,

while the member or section 2 is made quite long, all of which will be clearly evident from an inspection of Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the drawings. The said member or section 5 is made with an opening Z of the usual ovoid shape, as shown, and upon the inner surface of the member or section-2 there may be a bar or clea't 8. This bar or cleat' serves one purpose of acting as a rail to guide a bed-pan member 3 in such a manner that the two membore 5 and 4 will assume a slight angularrelation to each other, as indicated in. Fig. 2, owing to the-fact that the said bar or cleat 8 is of such thickness that the said section 5 rests upon the said bar or cleat 8, whereby direction of the arrow X.

the two sections or members 5 and 4 can never be in a straight alinennent. tial feature to more readily enable the several sections or members to assume their relativelyraised or elevated positions (indicated in said- Figs. 3 and 4) when the section 2 is used as a lever and is moved in an upward (Indicated in said Fig; 2 ofthe drawings.)

This is'an essen In order that the several members or sec- I I tions 2, 3, 4, and 5 may be retained or raised in their elevated relation to provide the chair. having a receiving-compartment 9, in which the bed-pan or other receptacle is to beplaced, the device'is provided with a suitable holding means, preferably in the form of stays or braces 10, which are vpivotaily connected with the member or section 3 by means of suitable hinges 11 or any other suitable means and are provided attheir free ends with hooks 1'2,

arranged for separable holding engagement with suitably-constructed catchplates 13 upon the section or member 2, all of which will be clearly evident from an inspection'of the several figures of the drawings.

To quickly and easily disconnect the several sections or members 2, 2, 4, and -5 for sanitary purposes and to thoroughly cleanse all of the parts of the device or apparatus after use, the edges of the hinge-leaves at the respective edges of the several members or sectionsare connected by means of remov-. ably-arranged rods 14, each rod being made with a suitable finger-piece 15, which can be arranged in suitably-placed depressions 16 at the edges of the adjacent sections or mem-' bers, as illustrated in Fig. 5 of the drawings, so as not to interfere with closing or folding of the several sections or members upon each other.

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The hereinabove-des'cribed'device'or apparatus is used in the following manner: As soon as the patient desires to attend to the necessary wants of nature the person is laid on his or her side and the closed or folded apparatus is placed'in the bed directly alqngside of the patient. The patient is then rolled directly upon the folded or closed apparatus and gently arranged over the opening inthe section or member 5.

section 2, moving it slowly in the direction of the arrow X in Fig. 2 of the drawings. This movement brings theseveral' sections or members in their relatively r isedpositions,

:(indicated in .Figs. 3 and 4,) in which positions the parts are locked. At the same time the protected body of the patient has. bee'n'elevated above the surface of the bed in s-sit' ting posture and ate. suflicient distance to by the disengagement of the holding-stays- Thishavingbeen done, the nurse takes hold of the free'end of the the scope of the present invention.

ble members for From the hereinabove description of my invention it will be clearly evident that I have provided an efficient and useful sick-bed chair which is of great benefit in cases of sickness, where it is of great danger to the patient to be put to muscularfexertion, and in the treatment of broken limbs, where it is extremely im portant that the patient shall be disturbed as little as possible and where a sitting posture of a person cannot. be produced except with muscular effort on the part of the. patient, the use of the device or apparatus is of great benefit and comfort to the patient.

do not, however, limit myself to the use of the apparatus solely for the purpose of attending to the wants of nature, for the device may be readily used by the patient during convalescence in bringing the patient in a sitting posture in the bed, for other various purposes, as in the taking in of nourishment, obviating the'unsatisfactory use in bolstering up the patient with pillows.

I am aware that changes may be made in the general arrangements and combinations of the various, partswithout departing from Hence I do not limit my invention to the exact arrangements and combinations of the parts as described in the present specification and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, nor do I confine myself to the exact details of the construction of the said parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is '2 1. As a new article of manufacture, a sickbed chair, comprising, a fixed, flat and solid board-like member and a number of eollapsi ble, flat and solid board-like members, all adapted to be arranged in a folded and flattened-out relation so as to enable the folded sections to be slipped beneath the body of a patient, and a means of pivotal connection between said fixed-member and said collapsibringing said collapsible members'in their raised positions, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a sickbed chair, comprising, a fixed, flat and solid boardlike member and a number of collapsible, flat and solid board-like members, all adapted to be arranged in a folded and flattened-out relation so as to enable the folded sections to he slipped beneath the body of a patient, and a means of pivotal connection between said fixed member and said collapsible members for bringing said collapsible members in their raised positions, and means connected with the said members'for retaining them in their elevated positions a snili cient distance to enable the placing of a receiving vessel beneath the patient, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a portable sick-bed chair, the combibottom member, and three other movable, flat and solid board-like members all connected so as to be folded upon each other to be placed bers being arranged and constructed that a movement of one of said members will raise theother two movable members above said fixed member to providea seat, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. A portable sickbed chair, comprising, a fixed, fiat and solid board-like bottom member, and a series of collapsible and hinged,iiat and solid board like members, all arranged that a movement of said hinged members will elevate one of said members directlyabove said fixed member and will bring the body of a patient in a sitting posture, and means for retaining said hinged members in their elevated positions, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

(a. As anew article of manufacture, a sickbed chair, comprising, a fixed, flat and solid ably-connectedand collapsible, flat and solid board-like members, all adapted to be arranged in a folded and flattened-out relation so as to enable the folded sections to be slipped beneath the body of the patient, and to be disconnected for cleaning after use, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

(5 As a new article of manufacture, a sick bed cnair, comprising, aiixed, flat and solid board-like member and a number of detachably-connected and collapsible, fiat and solid board-like members, all adapted to be arranged in afolded and flattened-out relation so as to enable the folded sections to he slipped beneath the body of the patient, and to be disconnected for cleaning after use, and means connected with ing them in their elevated position, when in use, a sufficient distance to enable the placing of a receiving vessel beneath the patient, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

7. A sick-bed chair, comprising, a solid and fiat bottom member, aback member movably connected with the i one edge of said bottom member, a short front member, movably connected with the opposite edge of said bottom member, and a seat member movably connected at its one edge with the upper edge of the front member and at the opposite edge with said back member, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

S. A sick-bed chair, com prising, a solid and flat bottom member, a back member movably connected with the one edge of said bottom member, a short nccted with the opposite edge of said bottom member, and a seat member movably connected at its one edge with the upper edge of the'front member and at the opposite edge with said back member, the said seat mem her being provided i stantially as and for the p with an opening 7, subthe said members for retai'nnation, with a fixed, flat and solid board-like i in bed u nder the body of the patient,said memboard-like member and a number of detach- IIO front member movably conurposes set forth.

r 9. A, sick-bed chair, comprising, e solid and fiat bottom member, a back member movably ebnneeted with the one edge of said bottom memifigaahortfront member movably con- 5 necte fljiritiithe opposite edge of said bottom'ffii'emls sryeseat member mevebly conuecteal at its one edge with the upper edge of the Erbntmemb'en ends-at the opposite edge with se-idgimek member; and means arranged I '10 betweemthe. said bottom member and the El said seat member to prevent the straightali'nement 05 said. members when folded, substantially as and for the purposes set ,c'orith. I

v 10. A sick-bed chair, comprising, a solid i5 and flat bOElJODlIRfiiHbBI, a back member movably connected. with the one edge of said bot tom member, a front member movably connected with the opposite edge ofisaid bottom member, a. seat member mevablyponnected at its one edge with the upperedge of said 20 front member, and a means of separable connection between said members, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 15thday'0f April, 1902';v .r I

- DANIEL MOFARLAN MOORE. Witnesses;

. FREDK. C. FRAENTZEL,'

. GEO. D. Erasmus; 

